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From: jkjl@munnari.oz (John Lim)
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Subject: Re: Diff
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Date: 8 May 89 08:46:20 GMT
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In article <7803@cadnetix.COM> pem@cadnetix.COM (Paul Meyer) writes:
>[]
>	The UNIX command is called diff, as well.  I have ported the
>Sun source for diff to my Mac as an experiment in using Prototyper
>(which, by the way, fails abyssmally on real-size projects and
>nontrivial things like edittext items in non-dialog windows, but is
>just fine for this kind of quick hack), and would like to post it all

A version of diff is available in MPW. Another version is available with
LSC. Both are called Compare. However they don't produce output
worthy of a stream-editor.


I agree with your assessment of Prototyper - suitable for quick hacks
and not much else. Until you have the ability to define links to
object code from within Prototyper (ie. When invoking the New... Menu
Item, link to function CreateWindow()) it's quite useless when you need
to modify an interface after generating and modifying code.

I've heard Dan Bricklin's Demo][ program is really good (MS-Dos program).
Any comments vs. Prototyper from anyone.

	john lim